Makerkit.dev VS MakeLesson

Makerkit.dev's answer

Indie Hackers and Companies who want to launch quickly, without compromising on quality.

MakeLesson's answer:

Teachers who lose more time preparing and marking than teaching, and who do both themselves.

• Private tutors setting homework between one-to-one lessons
• ESL and other language teachers working from textbooks, PDFs and handouts
• Online teachers whose students work from a phone
• Language schools

Makerkit.dev's answer

Makerkit uses Next.js 15 (App Router), Supabase, React.js, Typescript and Stripe.

MakeLesson's answer:

A modern cloud-based web stack

Makerkit.dev's answer

Makerkit stands out by offering a truly modular architecture built with Turborepo, where core features like auth, billing, and notifications live in their own packages for better maintainability.

While most starters lock you into specific patterns or providers, Makerkit gives you flexibility with a multi-account system supporting both B2B and B2C scenarios, provider-agnostic billing, and edge-ready deployment options.

Beyond the basics, it includes production-ready features like multi-factor auth, real-time notifications, and team permissions - all built with Supabase, TypeScript, React Query, and modern tooling to make development a genuine pleasure.

MakeLesson's answer:

• Full interactive lesson in 30 seconds. From a PDF, a photo of a textbook page, or one line describing the topic.
• No editing skill required. Just ask for what you want. The lesson comes out looking designed.
• Submissions come back checked. You open the list already knowing who struggled.
• Miro integration. Embed a live, auto-graded lesson straight onto a board.

Makerkit.dev's answer

While other starters give you basic auth and a dashboard, Makerkit provides a genuinely modular foundation with the real features SaaS products need - like multi-factor auth, team permissions, real-time notifications, and provider-agnostic billing, all organized in clean, maintainable packages using Turborepo.

You get a first-class developer experience with TypeScript, React Query, and modern tooling, plus the flexibility to support both B2B and B2C scenarios, different payment providers, and edge deployment options.

Best of all, Makerkit is actively maintained with regular updates and responsive support, so you're building on a foundation that grows with your needs rather than painting yourself into a corner.

MakeLesson's answer:

• No manual setup, exercise by exercise. Every exercise arrives configured with the correct answers already filled in, ready to share instantly. In other tools you type that in by hand, one exercise at a time.
• Start from what you already have. A PDF, a photo of a textbook page or a scan becomes a lesson, so you are not rebuilding your material from scratch.
• Multi-speaker dialogues. Built-in text to speech gives every speaker their own voice, so listening practice takes minutes instead of a recording session.
• Miro integration. Embed a live, auto-graded lesson straight onto a board for online lessons.

MakeLesson's answer:

This started with me being a student, not a teacher.

Printed handouts drove me up the wall. Writing answers into gaps too small for my handwriting. Getting a digital copy and finding there was no sane way to edit it. Every set of materials seemed to need a different tool, so half the work was fighting the format instead of doing the exercise.

My school had no digital approach at all. None. So I started asking teachers what actually got in their way, and built a first version around what they told me.

A lot of iterations followed. Then AI got good enough to change what was possible, and the interesting problem stopped being how to make one worksheet easier to fill in. It became how to let a teacher take whatever material they already have and turn it into something students can just open, do on their phone, and send back already checked.

That is what MakeLesson is now.

MakeLesson's answer:

The customers are:

• ESL and other language teachers, mostly working one to one or with small groups
• Teachers of young learners, which is why no student account is required. Children should not be signing up for anything, and parents should not have to sign them up either